I feel honoured to introduce a new add-on to the wesnoth.org community, on behalf of the EEaW team, coming from the Polish BfW fansite - wesnoth.com.pl
We have been working on it since September 2009. Many committed people were engaged in the labour-intensive process of its development and now all of them are deservedly listed in our credits.
Our goal was to create a completely new, absorbing add-on with a lot of original units and ideas in it. "But, what is really innovative in your concept?" - some of you may ask.
There is absolutely no fantasy in it! - is our answer.
This historical era contains 7 states from the past: Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, Cossack Hetmanate, Kingdom of Sweden, Ottoman Empire, Crimean Khanate, Tsardom of Russia and Habsburg Monarchy (Austria). You can lead them to victory.

Factions overview:

Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth - Versatile faction with powerful cavalry. Their infantry usually performs a support role, like artillery does. Amazing Polish hussars, if only properly used, are able to win almost every battle. Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth is a lawful nation.

Cossack Hetmanate - Offensive and chaotic faction that has a very good infantry, dangerous armoured wagons and fast warships called chaikas. Cossacks have almost no artillery and their cavalry is small in numbers and weak.

Kingdom of Sweden - Sweden is a neutral faction with expensive and powerful units. They have modern infantry, heavy reiters, deadly cannons and also the best warships. High quality of Swedish armies makes them good both in attack and defence.

Crimean Khanate - The most offensive of all factions, chaotic side of the conflict. They have fast units, especially cavalry, which are deadly in the night. They're great for their hit & run strategy, and also many different unconventional tricks. They have no cannons nor firearms.

Ottoman Empire - Lawful nation based on properly interplay of different parts of their army. Turks have many types of infantry, both light and heavy cavalry, cannons and good warships. Their units are relatively cheap and can easily overwhelm enemy forces.

Tsardom of Russia - Neutral faction including both cheap and expensive units. Russians are able to win thanks to their numerous advantage and resistance to unfavourable, winter circumstances. Their armies are cheered to fight by heavy armoured boyars and orthodox priests.

Habsburg Monarchy - The last, lawful nation. Units of Habsburg country may look like the Swedish armies, but they're cheaper and less armoured. Relatively fragile soldiers can always count for support of powerful artillery, officers and medics. They have unique mortars, howitzers and organ guns.

Secret Faction - Coming soon!

This era has some new and unconventional abilities, such as "fire from hills" which provides 60% accuracy when attacking for all of the cannons if they are standing on a hill. Generally, we tried to get as much "realism" as possible. It partially succeeded - for example, Russian units fight better on snow than Turkish ones, but Turks can easily defeat other nations on sand.
Probably most of you do not know anything about the European wars of the seventeenth century (no, this is not the era of Napoleonic wars! Napoleon lived 200 years later), but it does not matter. Our aim is to entertain, not to teach history, although we will be glad if some of you will become interested in these times.

EEaW currently has no animations because it is still developed. It is possible that in the future we will add new units, abilities and other things. Maybe one day we will even make some historical campaigns for our add-on as well.

Your comments & feedback are always highly appreciated.

Enjoy!

Last edited by Sagez on May 11th, 2018, 6:11 pm, edited 22 times in total.

Awesomness.
It is nice to see something set in XVIII century, but featuring real factions of the time.
Minor nitpick:
Ten husarz... Coś jest z nim definitywnie nie tak. Hełm wygląda dziwnie, takoż skrzydła... Oh, well.
(This winged hussar... Something's off with him. Helmet looks weird, so are wings. <Untranslatable >)
BTW: Damn, there IS polish Wesnoth fansite? And active one? Must check it out.
As for correctness: I hope noone will be offended by portrayal of their nation in this mod... From what you presented they all look quite badass.

Note that it's best to just have the addon's directory name be verbose so that there won't be any conflicts. If you do decide to make it verbose, I'd rename it to "Eastern_Europe_at_War". If this is to be done, you must change your textdomain to "wesnoth-Eastern_Europe_at_War".

Second, your textdomain (which is currently "wesnoth-eeaw") must match the addon's directory name, thus it should be "wesnoth-EEaW". So, you'll have to update all of your bindings. Remember, if you decide to rename your directory, the bindings much match the textdomain's name.

Third, you don't have a "translations" directory; make one in the root of your addon's directory.

Fourth, one of your files has a space in them; spaces in filenames don't play nicely with Unix-like operating systems... and the space in that file ("eng_ europa_9g_v8.cfg") is preventing wmlxgettext from entering it.

Fifth, some of your files that have translatable strings don't have textdomain bindings. You have some binding-less files in your "factions" directory, but you may have more.

I'm really happy seeing this project in version over 1.0 When I came up with conception of historical era and Sagez with inferno8 (and rest of polish fans from wesnoth.com.pl) give me a support to this idea, I did not expect that someday will succeed. Now I can thank them for the enormity of work involved, and invite others to play